paltering vs prevarication

paltering and prevarication both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paltering	Yes	No	No	No
prevarication	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prevarication is a hypernym of paltering; that is, prevarication is a word with a broader meaning than paltering:

Other hypernyms of paltering include fabrication, lying.

paltering (noun)	prevarication (noun)
a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear	the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
	intentionally vague or ambiguous
	a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth